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NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at the new PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress today said Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed should be "careful" about BJP's conversion agenda while National Conference wondered how ministers of the saffron party, whose idealogue had opposed the state's Constitution, now owed allegiance to it. "It was less a swearing-in ceremony, more a national executive committee meeting of the...

COIMBATORE: BJP president Amit Shah will pay a one-day visit to the city on March 5 to take stock of the political situation in Tamil Nadu during which he will have discussions with top party leaders. "As Tamil Nadu came out in top among 10 states in membership drive, nearing 22 lakh, Shah wanted to thank all leaders and workers at the grassroot level for achieving such a feat," party State Secretary GKS Selvakumar told PTI. All India secretary Muralidhar Rao , State president Tamilisai Soundararajan and Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan would be among 300 senior party leaders attending the morning session to take stock of political situation, he said.

NEW DELHI: Congress today took a dig at the PDP-BJP alliance, saying that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed should be "careful" about the conversion agenda being pursued by the saffron party. "It was less a swearing-in ceremony, more a national executive committee meeting of the BJP held in Jammu," Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said. He had said earlier that all the decision of the PDP-BJP alliance would now on be "taken at Nagpur", where the RSS headquarters is located.

JAMMU: PDP seems to have diluted its stand on controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) whereas BJP has taken a complete U-turn on Article 370 which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and both the parties have left open the issue of rehabilitation of West Pakistan refugees while chalking out a common agenda for the alliance. The "Agenda for Alliance" released by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh spoke about many things including political and developmental issues.

NEW DELHI: BJP today sought to downplay its U- turn on Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, in light of the agreement with its ruling coalition partner PDP to maintain status quo on the controversial provision. "As far as divergence of views is concerned, to agree to disagree is a part of democratic practice which the two parties have decided to live up to," Union Minister Jitendra Singh told PTI here. The coalition government led by People's Democratic Party (PDP)

HYDERABAD: Senior BJP leader and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said there is no change in the party's stand on Article 370 of the Constitution, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP-PDP alliance formed the government in Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of a common mininum programme, he told reporters here. Asked if the BJP had compromised on the issue of Article 370, Venkaiah said, "Our stand is where we were and we will be". Replying to a question if the PDP had agreed to the saffron party's stand over the matter, Venkaiah Naidu said "Neither they are towing our line (stand)

NEW DELHI: It is "payback time" for BJP and a "very 'suit'-able budget" of its government as the entire tax structure has been well organised to give sops to the rich to get richer, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said today. Terming the budget as "pro-rich and anti-poor", he said "the entire tax structure has been so well organised to give benefits to the rich and burden the common man. The total direct taxes have been reduced by Rs 8,050 crore and indirect taxes, paid by the people, raised by Rs 23,383 crore.

New Delhi: Opposition today slammed as "hollow and plain" BJP's first full-year union budget, saying it lacked the vision and alleged that it was "repayment" by the BJP government to the rich and the corporates. "The budget is only for big corporates and industries. It is not a pro-poor budget. This budget is a repayment by the BJP government to the rich and corporates who had supported them during Lok Sabha polls. The budget is all about promises," Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said.

PATNA: The Bihar unit of BJP today hailed Union government for announcing special assistance, on the lines of Andhra Pradesh, which would provide several concessions for setting up new industries in the state. Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the announcement in particular, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said it would prove a great help in construction of social and physical infrastructure of the state. Sushil Modi in a statement highlighted the concessions provided as per provisions of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. It said new industries in AP gets 35 per cent concession by way of investment allowance and 15 per cent depreciation allowance.

LUCKNOW: After the BJP's drubbing in Delhi polls, growing rumblings of discontent within the party's ranks are evident as far as Varanasi, where Narendra Modi had worked up a massive wave from the seemingly still waters of the Ganga just nine months ago. A group of workers that calls itself Namo Army and was among the first few voices from the ground to seek Modi's candidature from the holy city in the Lok Sabha elections says it is finding it...